Job 12:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Job 12:25 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Psalms 107:27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Isaiah 19:14
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Genesis 19:11
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-25)

This is a noble discourse of Job’s concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering and disposing of all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of his own will, which none dares gainsay or can resist. Take both him and them out of the controversy in which they were so warmly engaged, and they all spoke admirably well; but, in that, we sometimes scarcely know…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

25. De 28:29; Psa 107:27 again quote Job, but in a different connection.